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dead boy detectives + text posts part 1/?

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we need to talk about the Blue Light.

how it represents a safe passage forward from Death, and more broadly it symbolises the idea of a personal, individual to each person Heaven;

how the person usually isn't as directly lit as Edwin here, but from a side?

and how, when Charles looks at Edwin with the slightest smile and utter conviction in his eyes, Edwin is completely bathed in blue?

and. how Edwin, dead on a technical error, never got to see where his soul really belonged when it comes to his afterlife— and yet it's doubtless, from this shot alone, what his original destination would be.

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obsessed with the way Charles carries the lantern all the way through Hell, but promptly leaves it on the ground the moment he finds Edwin. he just grabs him and they start running. something something i don't need the light anymore now that i've found you. our path will be illuminated because i have everything i need right before my eyes

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i think charles wholly and sincerely believed he went to rescue edwin from hell in a platonic way. but moreover i think he's vaguely aware that if he doesn't babble "btw i'm devoted to you body and soul" weekly he will fucking combust, so i also bet he's been waiting to sprout stuff like that orpheus and eurydice line since he caught sight of edwin curled up in a ball in the dollhouse. his mind may be repressed, but his mouth wouldn't allow him to leave the worst place on the astral plane without saying romantic shit as a counterattack. it wouldn't dare. i say, king of running up that hill and rolling down into the rom-com mystery inc abyss

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hey. do you realise, when Edwin shut Charles' mouth up in Hell and told him to be quiet, his fingers were the first thing Charles truly felt against his lips since he died? nerves and all

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yea I think about the extremely unrehearsed hug Niko gave Edwin, and how delighted he was in those few seconds even if he wasn't sure where to put his hands about 8 times a day. wbu

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charles and edwin are both malewives, just in a different direction.

edwin is masculine in a peacock way, charles is feminine in a punk girl way. charles is the embodiment of "my husband is a bitch and i like him so much". edwin's cunty wine aunt disguise can crotchet and probably judges the fashion section in vogue magazine on a -1 to 6 scale. charles' guyliner and his pins would get him a free pass to the lgbt club even at the stage of a self-proclaimed ally. it's a good thing ghosts don't have to open doors, because they would try to hold it for the other forever, being downright annoying about it. their petname game would be sickening to the outside world. charles would call edwin 'mate' on their literal wedding. and don't even get me started on anniversaries, they would race to the kitchen and fight over who's wearing the pink frilly apron and is making breakfast in bed (the breakfast is play pretend; the apron is not.) last but not least, they'd both kill at drag

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dissecting charles like a frog in biology 101 for the startlingly quick and defensive, almost fearful way he says "nah they're just best mates" when ritchie suggested brad and hunter were secret gay lovers. now i wonder what thoughts has charles rowland been trying to safely tuck away in the back of his head for the past 30 years, with a label to examine: never

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dead boy detectives + text posts part 2/? (1)

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hey you know what. maybe it doesn't matter if S2 happens, we left the season on charles leaning on edwin's arm, flirting into his ear and looking at the door cleary to check if anyone's planning to come in right this second before planting himself on edwin's lap and kissing him soundly. saw it through the window. the blackout was to give them some privacy

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"edwin falls first, charles falls harder" etc not to be blunt but the point is that they both fall at the speed of a dying star breaking through the planet's atmosphere and hitting the surface causing a massive earthquake along with leaving a crater the size of a small country. hope this helps

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gays be like "this is my comfort character" and it's a guy dragged around Hell on a gigantic spider made of porcelain dolls bleeding and screaming for 70+ years

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the allusion to the cat king and esther having a thing sometime long ago, and after a messy break-up deciding to avoid each other at all costs is a bit mental. imagine getting stuck in the same small town as your bloodthirsty ex, but you're both supernatural beings, living for hundreds of years and are only really separated by a few neighbourhoods. i'd go crazy. what if you go to the market to buy milk and she's there in the corner picking up packet bird food. do you just pretend to walk into a different aisle

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"see edwin? everyone likes me eventually" um

what in the people pleasing, peer approval seeking, self-worth based on charisma rolled 10 or more was that charles rowland. do you want to try laying down on this petri dish

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hey do you think Charles would fall for Niko shouting "help! Edwin is not moving, he needs CPR!" dropping everything like oh shit and getting deadly serious ready for that mouth-to-mouth action, as Crystal screams in the distance HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO BREATHE CHARLES